April 2011

One of the cornerstones of ADFS is the concept of federation (one would hope anyway, given the name), which is defined as a user’s authentication process across applications, organizations, or companies. Or simply put, my company Contoso is a partner with Fabrikam. Fabrikam employees need access to one of my applications, so we create a federated trust between my application and their user store, so they can log into my application using their internal Active Directory. In this case, via ADFS. So lets break this down into manageable bits. First we have our application. This application is a relying party…